A 36:1 ratio is actually pretty good. (27)
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Labor Day recently passed. That means you may have received a shared photo album from a friend or relative. You know the type: It’s usually dozens (or hundreds) of shots of vacation fun. But you’re not into it. Now, it’s not that you don’t care; It’s fun to peek in and see what happened. But who wants to sort through a glut of 200 photos of someone else’s vacation (or baby photos or whatever)? What ...
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jessmartin said:
Thank you Matt, for making me feel a lot better about my photography. I'll be doing good if I can get one good photo out of thirty-six.
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phillprice said:
...if you get one good shot on a roll of 36, you were doing good. That’s the ratio: 36:1. When you edit ruthlessly like that, you come out with great results. People think you’re better than you are. It’s not that you became a brilliant photographer, it’s just that you started exercising taste and restraint
Canon posts teasers suggesting upcoming digital SLR (2)
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Digital Photography Review notes this morning that Canon has posted teasers hinting at an upcoming Canon camera that, based on its outline, is likely to be a midrange or pro digital SLR. Given that the EOS 5D is the oldest in the company's digital SLR lineup, the teasers may be showcasing a replacement for the three year old model.
Will Canon lose the high-megapixel crown? (1)
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Digital camera technology has evolved so fast that it makes pretty much anyone feel like an old-timer. Listening to me talk about how I photographed President Clinton with a camera that captured half-megapixel images sounds like listening to an old guy talking about his phonograph, but that was less than a decade ago. So four years is a very long time for Canon to have maintained a wide lead in high-megapixel 35mm dSLRs, but they've ...
Questions and Answers (1)
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By Bob Lutz GM Vice Chairman Here’s something that arrived in my e-mail inbox recently from an old friend. I thought I’d pass it along to the FastLane crowd, because I know you’ll find it as interesting as I did. The Big Three has taken a lot of heat in recent years over falling sales in the domestic auto industry. But, as this little quiz reminds us, there’s plenty that the U.S. automakers in general ...
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gfurry said:
I still don't own an American car but I can't quite figure out why. Just like politics there are lots of areas where perception is not reality
Amazon Video on Demand service goes live for Macs (22)
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Filed under: Video, Internet ToolsA while back we noted that Amazon was planning to bring its video on demand service to the Mac. Well, it looks like they've finally flipped the switch because the service is now live. Much like iTunes, they're selling TV shows as well as offering movies for purchase and rent. Unlike iTunes, it's a streaming rather than a download service. Fortunately, they've got a number of free videos which will give ...
Vincent Laforet’s Blog - Remote Heaven or Hell depending on the Results… (7)
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Here’s a quick video of the still camera remotes at the Beijing Olympics. I didn’t have time to shoot, blog AND edit video during the games - so I didn’t get a chance to look through and cut this video until now. It shows close to 100 remote cameras - ALL - focused on the finish line of the men’s 100M Final - THE - marquee event of any summer Olympic games (with the exception ...
A little iPhone organization would be nice (9)
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I made a Friendfeed post a while ago about this, and then I realized that microblogging is sucking whatever ideas I have for blog posts right out of my head and turning them into one-sentence blips in the social-networking ether… Anyhow. The iPhone interface is intuitive. However, this does not mean that it’s practical, especially when you have numerous icons to keep track of. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an interface for organizing ...
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gfurry said:
I couldn't agree more. Please Apple let us organize our apps more easily!
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JL! said:
Veronica's idea: "And while we’re at it, how about trial periods for apps? ... If developers could add a time limit into the DRM wrapper on the app, then it could turn itself off after a certain pre-determined trial period ended."She's not the first to say it, and she won't be the last.
By the Numbers - August 2008: New Digs Edition (2)
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Filed under: By the NumbersCheck it out. We've completely revamped By the Numbers to convey more sales information than before in a much easier to digest way. Now we'll be reporting both the change in monthly sales volume for each brand and automaker as well as the change in their Daily Sales Rate or average number of vehicles sold per day. On to the armchair analysis... Poor sales continued through the month of August as ...
First-Gen iPhones rise steadily in price (22)
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Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone This Business Week article describes the rising demand for first generation iPhones. "Shelf prices" (using eBay values of virtual shelves) for the 16GB iPhone are currently at about $600, and $500 for 8GB models. In other words, the $250 AT&T refurb specials from March are now worth roughly double what you paid for them. From easy-unlocking to contract-free usage to eco-consumerism, consumers are looking for those original units and ...
TUAW Tips: Open .docx files with Office 2004 (4)
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Filed under: Software, TUAW TipsIf you haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you're probably intimately familiar with the problem of receiving Office 2008 .docx (Word 2008) files; they're not natively supported by Office 2004. If you have updated that older version of Office to 11.5.0 and installed the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac, you'll be able to open .docx files in Word 2004.Both the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update Package ...
TTD Video: How They Roll in Belgium (3)
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Thanks to Didier Jouret, who sent me a link to this video from a Pieter Van Impe "Trash the Dress" -type shoot. This one is not so much about lighting, but it does include all of the typical stuff: Beach, sunset, trippy beats, happy couple, some champagne, a little nipple pinching, a kite-mounted Canon G9 for overheads, ... wait, WHAT?Dude, I so want that G9 kite mount. He uses the G9 on a monster light ...
Adobe to unveil Creative Suite 4 in September 23 webcast (2)
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Adobe will unveil Creative Suite 4, including Photoshop CS4, in a series of webcasts starting on September 23.
Old Boeing 747 Becomes New Hotel in Stockholm (4)
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Okay, so you may not own the big plot of land you'll need to buy an old Boeing 747 jumbo jet and convert it into your very own home sweet home. And you may not have the deep pockets required to enjoy all the comforts of home available in the first class cabin of an Emirates A380 superjumbo. But if you happen to find yourself in Stockholm, Sweden later this year, you can probably afford ...
Preaching to the choir is a waste of time (22)
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Activist, poet, and musician Saul Williams is catching gruff from fans for allowing Nike to use his song “List of Demands” in commercials. Williams wrote an open letter defending the use of the song. I received a lot of questions from some about why I would allow my song ‘List of Demands’ to be used in a Nike campaign. Ironically, half of the people now reading this post never heard of me until that commercial ...
Video Clip: Keyword Clouds. (1)
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This is a short 7-minute segment taken from CreativeTechs' Google for Graphic Designers webinar on August 6, 2008. In this workshop we dig into how designers can build their websites for maximum exposure in today's search engines. [View all Upcoming Webinars] Note: The sound is a poor recording of a live phone call. We're working on a better way to capture sound in future webinar conference calls.
At Bat updated to version 1.2 (1)
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Filed under: Software, iPhone, App StoreOne of my favorite iPhone/iPod touch applications, Major League Baseball's At Bat [App Store link] has been updated to version 1.2 with great new features. For the unfamiliar, At Bat provides up-to-the-minute statistics on ongoing baseball games, including the count at the plate, pitching and batter statistics ... even video clips of a game that's in progress. It's a little treasure for baseball fans (like me) who can't always watch ...
Introducing Picasa 3.0 (and big changes for Picasa Web Albums) (130)
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A little over two years ago, we launched Picasa Web Albums to make publishing photos online easy. Now Picasa Web Albums hosts billions of online photos from around the globe, with users adding millions of new snapshots every day. Each of these photos records a different moment, or a different perspective, but one thing they all have in common is that in each case, the person behind the camera wanted to share their experience with ...
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Praneet said:
So finally google entering into 'image recognition' space :) with 'grouping similar faces together'. 'Riya' will have some competition now !
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JayCrossler said:
Shiney! Will play with this. Funny - I just purchased another year of Flickr membership yesterday.
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Ramon Silva said:
Google is going to rule the world!
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Bryan said:
And you thought Chrome was the only thing new. This is another big Google release this week. I'll try and post something about it (as well as do my own explorations) soon.
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chrishathaway said:
Google's on a roll today... the new picasa has some great new features.
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AdamB said:
this is awesome!
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